Bioengineering: Human beings can fully exploit their potential under the existing organic body structure

Semi-mechanical engineering: integrating various non-organic devices, retaining the organic brain as the core

Non-organic bioengineering: intelligent software replaces neural networks, inorganic life replaces organic life

1. The above refers to "humanity as a whole", not most individual people.

2. This is a historical prediction, not a political goal

3. Pursuing may not necessarily result in getting

4. Predictions are not for the purpose of prophecy. Predictions can change the future after discussion.

Each expert has his or her own specialty. No one understands the entire system. No one knows where the brakes are.

The modern economy can only grow endlessly, and braking will lead to collapse. It can only pursue sustainable goals: immortality, happiness, and divinity. (The three are inseparable)

Humans have exterminated and conquered other large animals and dominated the world; humans, like other animals, are a set of biological algorithms for reproduction, and emotions and desires help us find a path quickly

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If the soul evolved, then it would be contrary to the nature of evolution for it to be an indivisible, eternal entity.

If the soul suddenly appeared in a human being, it is unimaginable that there was no trace of soul before him or his parents.

If everything is in our neuron network, why separate the mind?

If the mind is higher than the neural network, then where is it?

Animals can only imagine what actually exists

And people can imagine intersubjective things, which have real and powerful power, such as countries, companies, laws, etc.

People organize large-scale collaboration through fictional stories. This is the fundamental reason why human power is amplified and dominates the world.

If you want to decipher the future of mankind, you must decipher all kinds of fictional imaginations that fail to make sense of the world.

Words allow people to organize society in an algorithmic way. Each person completes a small step, and the final important decision is judged by the entire algorithm. This is the essence of the bureaucracy.

The state issues a piece of paper and forces citizens to use this piece of paper to pay taxes. Citizens have no choice, but the market develops.

We should distinguish between reality and fiction. The status of reality is of course higher. The euro can depreciate but it is not painful.

In the future, there will be more powerful fictional concepts and more totalitarian organizations. It is particularly important to distinguish between reality and fiction.

Fictional stories make it easier for humans to cooperate, but the cost is that stories also determine the goals of our cooperation

Religion is not the same as superstition. What you believe must be the "truth", and what others believe will be superstition.

Religion is not supernatural, it is natural for people who believe in demons, gods, spirits

Religion is not a question of whether you believe in "God"

Religion does not equal spirituality

Religion is an all-encompassing set of stories that lends superhuman legitimacy to human laws, norms, and values

If science wants to create a viable human system, it needs the assistance of religion; it studies facts but does not make ethical judgments

Religion is not just about ethical judgments, it also includes factual statements

Science and religion are easier to compromise and cooperate than imagined

Modern history is actually the process of reaching an agreement between science and a specific religion (humanism). Modern society believes in humanism, and science is not to question, but to realize its dogma.

Humanist Politics: Voters can make the best choices

Humanistic Economics: The customer is always right

Humanistic Aesthetics: The person who sees it thinks it is beautiful, it is beautiful

Humanistic Ethics: If it feels right, do it

Humanistic education: think for yourself

Classical Orthodoxy: Liberalism

Branch One: Social Humanism. Socialism blames liberalism for focusing too much on one's own feelings and ignoring the experiences of others.

Branch Two: Evolutionary Humanism. The conflict of various experiences and feelings is inevitable and the best one wins

The basis of liberalism is that people have free will. This is a statement of fact.

Fact statement science can intervene

According to the theory of evolution, all so-called "selections" of animals are responses to genetic codes.

Liberalism believes that everyone has a single, indivisible self

Split-brain experiment, self is physically separable

Ice and fire experiment, people have two selves: experiencing self and narrative self

1. Biology is an algorithm. Every animal is a collection of algorithms that evolved

2. The function of the algorithm is not affected by the constituent substances

3. As long as the facts are calculated, there is no difference between silicon-based and carbon-based

Humanity as a whole still has value, but individuals no longer have authority and most choices are governed by external algorithms

Human beings have absolutely no value

The mechanism of the economy is to collect data about desires and abilities and then translate them into decisions

Capitalism won the Cold War not because it was more ethical or because God was angry with the Soviet Union, but because decentralized data processing was better than centralized at this stage.

Democracy and autocracy are essentially two opposing mechanisms for collecting and analyzing information.

If data cannot be processed effectively, the noble institutions of the past such as elections, political parties, and parliaments may become obsolete.

Authoritarian regimes are also unable to cope with the speed and volume of data flows

4 ways to improve efficiency

4 stages of human development

The first commandment of dataism: connect more and more media to generate more and more information

The second commandment of dataism: Connect everything to the system, even the heretics who don’t want to join

Dataism believes that experience has no value if it is not shared, and people do not need (or even can) find meaning in their hearts. What we have to do is wait for the algorithm to figure out the meaning

As long as there are better algorithms and data, human biological algorithms will naturally be eliminated

The Internet of Everything itself has a sacred meaning

Dataism is as much a threat to humans as humans are to other animals. Data doesn’t care about our subjective needs

Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma that all living things are algorithms and life is data processing

Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness

Unconscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know more about us than we do